Show put two men to death in order to gain the insurance on their lives clever work of j a detective discloses the conspiracy new york nov 23 details of tho crime for which W C richardson C H harie and william mason americana have been sentenced to be shot afi chihuahua mexico were furnished last night by attorney harry H bol tome of this city the infliction of tho death penalty marks the end of an extraordinary conspiracy to cheat the new york life insurance company mr bollomo was solicitor general tor that company when the murders involved were committed in 1902 the details of the crime and the great detective story that followed have never been printed the three criminals have fought extradition and appealed through the mexican courts for three years hul bur a rochester lawyer who ran away to mexico with seven indictments over his head for running a divorce mill matchell Ml alias ma aon was another rochester lawyer who followed him later with the help of dr harle of chihuahua they poisoned with strychnine two other americans whom they caused to be insured in the new york life and collected on the policies these two americans were harry matchell Ml brother of mr hulburt and james devera a broken down mining man hulburt calling himself C T richardson was the companas comp anys agent at chihuahua after the murders the gang except harle to texas suspicion was aroused and a detective named gray was sent to texas he joeed as a lumber merchant and was supplied with lumber orders from new york to keep up the game one day hulburt spoke to grays little girl the men met got intimate and hul hurt broached a scheme to cheat the insurance company out of ho said that he had had experience detective gray proposed that they insure grays brother ln anc for at a beginning A broken down detective called john II 11 bevans was imported by gray as his brothe nak was dying of consumption and brights disease william matchell Ml posed as evans and two reputable phy examined him and pronounced him a good risk he was known as meredith when he was not the evans the whole crowd including gray arrested on november ast 1st dr harle who was still in chihuahua was induced to adne into the united states and was arrested he was put through the third degree and made a confession about lis connection with the two chihuahua claims the proceedings ce against mitchell and hulburt on the dallas plot were dropped all three were extradited to mexico for murder this was in june 1903 then the strange atory of the two murdered americans camo out little by little as the case was tried and retried hulburt it appeared had brought a former stenographer away from as hla wife he went 10 mexico and changed hia name to richardson then he got the insurance agency this wife of his bis second wife she as had been helen mitchell her brother harry alt chell came down from rochester via new mexico and lived with them in chihuahua after a while they got harry mil chall insured tor in favor of hie sister helen then one daa february alth 1902 harry suddenly died dr harle who was called in said in the claim papers that it was spinal meningitis some time before harry death hulburt the agent had gone to bl paso there he met a stranded mining man named james devers he per devers to accompany him to chihuahua and he and devers went to live at a cheap boarding house as halt brothers dovers without his knowledge waa insured tor in favor of this only the papers were concocted by harle hulburt and meredith the evidence that they soaked him with that contained of mercury the quantities were too small so one day dr harie was called in to attend to him the three men went into n back room of the boarding house and an hour later the doctor announced that devers was dead it was dysentery h bald de vars had been poisoned with strychnine in cheese davers died on february the claim was not filed until july in order to avert suspicion when it was filed or bell wrote to the company that he had delayed because he intended visiting new york he had given up the plan now how ever and would they send the check for to fort worth mr edith made over the check to hulburt and it was the endorsement indorsement Indor C A lUc bardson on this check that set at work |